CFL's can be an issue what about LED

[DevonSprings]

Hi All,

 

I know CFL's might be an issue with comms, anyone know anything about LEDs. I am taking the whole house to www.earthled.com LEDs as they have dimmable 5W MR-16s that work.

 

But before I put in 2500 worth of LED bulbs anyone got any thoughts on causing problems on a circuit.

 

Where I live electricity is > 40 cents / kw / hr so the bulbs pay for themselves in less than 6 months.

 

Devon

[Brian H]

I have a pair of the Earthled EvoLuxS bulbs myself.

I have not used them much as they are directional and in a table lamp the ceiling gets the light as the beam end is up.

 

Back to the question. I will try some tests and see if I can find out anything and will post it.

 

The MR16s are a 12 volt bulb? If my search of their site found the ones you are looking at. In that case the power supply driving them and not the bulb type maybe what you have to find out about.

 

Since mine are a 90-277 volt 50/60Hz universal line voltage model. Its power supply is different than their dimmable MR16 ones, but I will try a few things anyway.

 

You could buy a few to test. Before diving in to using them in the whole house. I was disappointed with the EvoLuxS bulbs as what they showed on the web site was not exactly how they looked in use.

 

Your link has a error in it.

http://www.earthled.com/index.html

[DevonSprings]

Brian,

 

For incandescant replacement I have been using a few bulbs but I like this one a lot.

 

http://www.amazon.com/replacement-bulb- ... 723&sr=1-1

 

I think the next time I will get Warm Whites. The Natural Whites have a stark blue tinge to them. I don't know why they don't add some red LED to the blue to make it more white.

 

The earthled sorry folks it is http://www.earthled.com have dimmable MR-16's. None of them really work as well as my dimmable GU-10 and maybe that is a voltage thing. The MR-16's being 5-12 V of probable operation.

 

I also have 38 Low voltage heads, but again I could easily sell these and replace them with GU-10 if someone made a powerful enough dimmable GU-10.

 

The dimmable GU-10 3W being 5W short of bright enough I have from GE, dims very evenly.

 

I was worried about my LED's causing some comms problems.

 

After reading comments by Illusion last night I am thinking I will put in the phase coupler.

 

http://forum.universal-devices.com/viewtopic.php?t=3016

 

I would say my Insteon runs at about 90%. But I would easily replace all the switches and the dimmers to new if I thought going 100% I2 would make it run 100%.

 

The cost is not the issue. I would like it to work 100% of the time. I have had the box to put my water heater on a timed circuit for 1 Year but I am afraid it would never work.

 

It would be nice to have a little device that you could plug in or jump in that showed Insteon Signal strength versus noise.

 

Devon